Which countries want their teams to boycott the Football World Cup? Jonathan Dodd, Research Director at Ipsos joins Graeme Hill to discuss politics in sports, and the cognitive bias Stress Influence Tendency. Research shows that 49 per cent of Indian and 45 per cent of Saudi people that were surveyed, think their national team should boycott the Football World Cup in Russia next week. Mr Dodd finds this interesting as India or Saudi Arabia doesnt seem to have a large problem with Russia at the moment. Graeme notes politics shouldnt interfere with sports but it always does. Also, the cognitive bias Stress Influence Tendency - which Mr Dodd breaks into three key parts: social proof tendancy, prival superreaction and doubt avoidence. Also, A new Museum exhibition named the Secret World Of Butterflies opened at Auckland Museum this weekend. John Early, Curator and master of insects joins Graeme Hill to discuss what a butterfly really is, the collection and the strange world of the collectors. Mr Early speaks about Ray Shannon, a butterfly collector who travelled all over the world. Mr Shannon handed over thousands of butterflies to the Museum when he died, which is how this exhibition came about. Mr Early says the tropics are the hotspots for butterflies, which he simply describes as an insect with scaly wings. Some butterflies of the rare species can even sell for huge sums, racking up over 1.6 thousand New Zealand Dollars for one butterfly. Weekend Variety Wireless with Graeme Hill, 8pm - midnight Saturdays and Sundays, on RadioLIVE and streaming live to the Rova app on Android and iPhone. RadioLIVE.

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